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‘We will challenge notices in Court’: IFF’s statement on legal notice over ‘defaming’ RSS
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) details a legal notice issued on behalf of the RSS over its documentation of censorship in India, and the police action that followed, raising concerns over freedom of expression
Call for hartal on in Valley, KPSS condemn brute killings of Kashmiri Pandits, call out extremists
KPSS demands high level interventions by the country’s prime minister and home minister
Village Mourns Killing of Man Belonging to Lone Kashmiri Pandit Family Which Stayed, Vigil held: J&K
The shocking killing by shooting took place barely 50 metres from 45-year-old Sanjay Kumar Sharma's home in Achan village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district days after the SP and SSP were both transferred out by the administration
Kashmiri Pandit Killed in Targeted Attack Near His Residence in Pulwama
The attack comes just two days after a civilian identified as Asif Ganai was targeted by suspected militants in the Bijbehara area of South Kashmir.
India behind on poverty, health and gender goals: Independent study
The study, which covers 707 districts, has found that barely a year ago, in 2021, over 75 per cent of the districts were off target on key indicators such as access to basic services, anaemia, poverty, child marriage etc
ICHR stops singing of national anthem, removes images of Bharat Mata, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya after ‘objections’ were raised
A senior official told The Indian Express that the singing of the national anthem started based on a verbal order in September 2022 and stopped on February 24, also on a verbal order. There was no written order to remove images of Bharat Mata and Upadhyaya but these were also removed today from both places, he informed.
Christians & Muslims excluded from voters list in Karnataka, HC approached
Complaints of deliberate exclusion of voters from the minority community from key seats in Karnataka have been surfacing with worrying regularity, now the focus is Bengaluru’s spotlight Shivajinagar constituency
Anti-BJP, ‘inconvenient’ voters in Bengaluru could be dis-enfranchised: Karnataka polls
Thousands of voters, especially Dalits and Muslims could be deliberately cast off the voter’s list in Bengaluru’s Shivajinagar constituency of Karnataka
Tripura: CAA and the rise of Tipra Motha
How the controversial CAA, introduced in 2019 and kept in abeyance since, is re-igniting indigenous insecurities in Tripura
Seattle becomes first US city to ban caste discrimination, what does this mean?
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Pawan Khera granted interim bail after being arrested by Assam police over Modi jibe
The Congress leader had made a jibe at PM Modi over his acquaintance with Gautam Adani
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‘We will challenge notices in Court’: IFF’s statement on legal notice over ‘defaming’ RSS
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) details a legal notice issued on behalf of the RSS over its documentation of censorship in India, and the police action that followed, raising concerns over freedom of expression
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SC: Article 142, Mass Amnesties, and the Panchayatisation of the Rule of Law
Within a month of youth-led protests in Delhi and at least half a dozen other locations, the Supreme Court’s September 1 Order invoked its extraordinary powers under Article 142 to quash criminal cases registered across at least five states. This examines the limitations of this ad hoc jurisprudence, arguing that while protection from abusive state prosecution is welcome, linking it to the cancellation of the September 5 march sets a troubling precedent. Constitutional scrutiny demanded a rigorous examination of alleged executive and police overreach, including blanket prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the BNSS and the shutdown of metro stations and internet services. Instead, the alleged excesses of Delhi and other police forces remain unadjudicated.
India
Need for Clarity on the SIR: An Open Letter to the Congress Leaders of Karnataka
While the national leadership of the party, leads and articulates the national campaign for the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, the state leadership of Karnataka, a state governed by the party, gives conflicting statements almost endorsing a process that has disenfranchised close to 10 million there
Environment
From Arunachal to Delhi, anti-dam protesters face state crackdown; detained allege sexual assault
Around 40 protesters from Arunachal Pradesh were detained during a solidarity demonstration, as the crackdown on indigenous resistance to the proposed mega dam intensifies
India
Beyond Appropriation: Vidya Bhushan Rawat’s recovery of Bose’s inclusive nationalism
Rawat’s book emerges from a unique perspective that argues –among other things – that Bose and Nehru must be understood through their competing strategies, and historical circumstances— not recruited retrospectively into opposing political camps; neither does the book place Bose beyond criticism, affirming however his intrinsic secular outlook while stressing on diverse networks that helped sustain the struggle for independence’ not a biography of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose but a chronicle of Indian National Army as well as India’s freedom Movement.
Minorities
After 22 years under suspicion, Assam’s Kashem Ali declared Indian by Foreigners Tribunal
With 18 years passing between the registration of the case and service of notice, and nearly a year spent fighting to prove his citizenship, Kashem Ali finally wins legal relief with CJP’s assistance